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'There Off' (said the monkey as the train ran over his nackers.) It's Sunday. 🙂...anyway, We're off for a few months (not sure yet) outside Thailand. My present Retirement Extension is until May 2024 and we may not be back in time to renew it. I have an O retirement visa with the B80000 in the bank version. Can I come back on a Tourist visa and go to my Kalasin Imm. office and redo my Retirement Visa? Would I get a Visa On Arrival, or what's the best to do for an old fella like me? Thank you.

Tried Roiet and Kuchinari and no hab.

All done. Initially because the lamps wifey bought were only about 80B each and all metal with no earth wires I thought I would install an RCBO. It didn't work. Then I found there was going to be 2 sets of 3 lights switched separately, so the electrician had shared the neutrals, so I turned it all off to fix it. We never use those lights but, years later I'm on one of my fix everything broken thinggy before I can't get in there with a ladder.

Ahhhh the brown smell.....guilty. 🙂

That's woke....when woke wasn't around. 🙂

Buy the new 5million hour day/night LED. Can't go wrong....don't quote me. 🙂

Never forget....black, bas****, roo***, our, young, girl, beaut, virgin gone, west. 555555 It's an analogue, Telecom thing.

Here's a different brand Daylight sensor. Green for neutral? Great advice on the box. 'If light does not turn on during the night, check the light bulb.'

Me too....now see if it works without clouds triggering it. SWAGHW wanted them installed all around the back of the house, but at sunrise they kept flickering on/off, so they all got turned off. Thanks. I just do what I'm told (mostly). "Yes dear" makes for happy hubby. 🙂

Driveway lights nearly done (had to buy one new mechanical bit yesterday). Strange (to me anyway) I could not buy green heatshrink. I sprayed the yellow heatshrink green. 🙂 I also noticed that the red cables are white, just dipped in red paint probably. I looked at all the old 220v power cable I have left over from the house wiring 8 years ago, and alot of the red paint has come off leaving Rd/Wh (it's an analogue term like 'slate') cable.

Thank Christ the analogue problem is sorted. 🙂 Now I may be the last to know, but lovely wifey wants more lights that come on in the night time (dark) only. So I only did know of those switches you install outside the light to create this magic. But found a magic LED light that does it all. Amazing.

Love the American sailors in Patts. Was at a bar (long time ago) when a junior sailor was having an argument with another NCO sailor, and I first heard this: ' you talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?' All the other sailors went Woooooo. 🙂 Cracks me up thinking about it.

I think you have to be reasonable in this situation. I think the owner should have given you back the money, or at least half of it. Greed.

Where you been, thought you had retired. Great advice as always. 🙂

Send them to Pattaya, I've got a lovely house I want to sell. 🙂

My firstTKR didn't go well, as I said before, because the patella was too tight. Just 2mm the Dr said when they took it out again after shaving that much off the patellar button. After the op I woke up with one of those knee stretching machines, so pain on pain. Out of the mob that had TKR with my specialist I was the only one with a problem and that included some with double TKR at the same time. Major scar tissue which the physio had to keep breaking 3 times a week. He would roll a towel up under my ankle, say 'are you ready' then slowly push my knee down to the bed. The force got stronger until my knee was straight on the bed. Kept doing it, with breaks until I'd had enough. I could feel the tearing under my knee and after weeks he finally said he had done as much as he could. My sister who took me to physio said she would never ever have a knee op after all my screaming. 🙂 About a year later I had an arthroscope and the Dr said there was scar tissue everywhere, which he removed. Even with this last revision Dr said still lots of scar tissue before he fixed the kneecap. Same renowned specialist. I asked him why and he said he didn't know. Said some people have trouble. Surgery went well. For rehab, after the 1 week hospital rehab, I exercised in the pool every day.... walked and walked, rode a stationary bike, as well as bought a skate board and used that to bend the knee as much as I could stand, every day.

I had a Spinal Chord Implant (SCI) for back problems. Several years ago. My pain doctor said he was putting off knee surgery to wait for the stem cell therapy. Things are rapidly progressing but I am not sure if they have perfected it yet.

Sorry, trouble editing at moment. Picture after second revision and now (about 1 year apart). I worked on rehab extremely hard. Many many older (near 80 yrs) people riding bikes etc after TKR.

You can buy big bags of salt from Global House, I'm sure they would be cheaper than a pool shop. My pool chlorinator has a low chlorine light which helps. Try and filter your water before you fill the pool, if you can't, it will take a few days to clean up, but just be patient. Mine is app 100,000 L with a 2 Hp pump and skimmer boxes, so I'm not sure of extra water requirements for an overflow pool. I built the pool myself with local farmers, so wasn't confident to take on an overflow build. 🙂 During the wet season the Ph tends to go up so you need Soda Ash or similar and acid. Just follow your pool installer advice and they should balance it all up for you. I'm in Isaan so maybe a little different maintance schedule that Pattaya or similar big city. I vaccume once a week (local farmer B350).

I've never thought about measuring the temperature of my piss, bit kinky. 🙂 So you don't get offended, I apologise for this post. My pool is still cool.

Trouble is some tears (like mine) cause the knee 'catching' as you walk and a feeling that the knee gives way.

There's a world of difference between a menicus tear and TKR. If you get the right doctor they can repair the menicus. If you are older they may not repair it, just cut the bits out that may be causing problems, which the did with me. I've also had a TKR and not fun. I was one of the unfortunate ones who had a big problem with mine and am on my second revision and it's a lot better now. Seems the patellar button was about 2mm too big (I had a new knee cap as well) and I kept getting lots of scar tissue. I'd still have the other knee replaced as better to be able to walk than not due to the pain.

I'll go with Crossy's idea and place some green heat shrink over the cable I decide to be earth in the outside Consumer Unit. At the moment I'm not inclined to re-wire the run with correct colored wires and as SWMBO is replanting along the driveway I need to finish it or it will be difficult to get my ladder safely against the driveway wall. One of my Thai friends just fell of his ladder, busting his knee and toes and last month Wifey fell of the ladder last month and had a big infection and stiches in her leg.

Years ago the electrician ran some wires to outside driveway lights. When I'm not there he never runs earth wires. As these are metal lights I have always been going to run an earth and finally getting round to it. There's a bit more to the story, but I've found for most of the run (about 20m) there are red, black and white wires. So instead of running a new earth cable I'm going to use one of the existing cables. He was using red and black to some of the lights and red and white to others. I want to use white for neutral, black for active and red for earth. Does this seem the best setup for the wires I have?